"The majority does not rule and every vote is not equal - those are reasons enough for scrapping the system. But there are other consequences as well. This election has been making clear how the Electoral College distorts presidential campaigns. A few swing states take on oversized importance‚ leading the candidates to focus their attention‚ money and promises on a small slice of the electorate." The 2000 election caused a lot of controversies. It took five weeks to determine the Presidency and
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Yes the Electoral college should be taken out of the constitution.The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states‚ for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president
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Ida Campbell The Electoral College: Good or Bad? The United States Electoral College is the group that is responsible for electing the President and the Vice President every four years. Contrary to popular belief‚ the United States is not a “true” democracy in the rawest sense of the word in part because of our electoral college. The mechanics of the United States Electoral College is fairly simple. Each state is assigned a certain number of electors. The number is derived from the total
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percentage vote‚ (larger percentage in Virginia messed up the result). Most electors are nobodies because the Constitution prohibits them from being senators or representatives. Many people feel their vote is meaningless because they live in a politically homogenous state. Although there are some big disadvantages to having the electoral college‚ there are also big advantages to keeping the electoral college. The first is that it gives protection to small states. Without the electoral college‚ the small
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The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who ultimately select which presidential candidate will become president. The president has multiple responsibilities and requirements. Therefore‚ he/she must be elected with something effective. The Electoral College is a system that is favored by some‚ but disliked by some as well. I think the Electoral College is a great concept and no changes should be made to it. One argument in favor of the Electoral College I found most convincing was that it
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election I have been thinking about the impact effect of the electoral college. The electoral college is made up of the number of state members in the house of representatives and the number of state members in the senate. In Kansas we have 6 electoral college votes because we have 4 house of representatives and 2 senators. The electoral college was originally designed so each state could choose representatives to cast their states vote in the presidential elections. Now the electors are chosen by
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and the Electoral College (is reform needed?): DQ1 has four parts‚ and note that part 4 has two sub-parts: 1. Briefly summarize how the Electoral College works. 2. Briefly explain the pros and cons of whether to keep or abolish the Electoral College. 3. Briefly explain one proposal for changing the Electoral College process without abolishing it (i.e.‚ without having to amend the Constitution). 4. Evaluate this proposal from two perspectives: (a) the relevance of the Electoral College’s
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American Government and Politics Argue for or against the electoral college The 2000 United States (U.S.) presidential election concluded with Vice President Al Gore winning half a million more popular votes than George W. Bush (50‚992‚335 to 50‚455‚156) yet losing the White House in the Electoral College by only five votes (271 to 266). It once again raised questions about the validity of the Electoral College as the same scenario has occurred in the 1824‚ 1876‚ and 1888 presidential elections
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My Opinion on the Electoral College The Electoral College is the current system America uses to elect the president. How this systems works is when you vote‚ you aren’t really voting‚ you are telling an elector where you would like your vote to go to. Once everyone has voted‚ the elector votes for a candidate based on the votes of the people. There are anywhere from three to about 55 electors per state. I believe this system should be replaced with the popular vote method. One of reasons I believe
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Alexander Hamilton was the chief architect of the electoral college since he distrusted popular democracy. He said that the electoral college would ensure that a few men of insight and reflection would select the ablest president. Specifically‚ he wrote‚ "A small number of persons‚ selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass would act under circumstances favorable to deliberation" (Wright 59). Hamilton believed that the electoral college system would reduce civic unrest if public participation
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